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Comment by rjmunro

4 days ago

Surely military drones will use OpenStreetMap data? Even the Russians and Iranians can use it for whatever purpose they like.

Yes. Just like editing wikipedia will help train models that are used for data classification in north korea or whatever.

It's a feature of open data, it's open and usable by anyone.

Everything you do online publicly is usable in principle. Might as well also be public good. And my understanding is that Pokémon go made use of the camera. The kind of data you add using street complete is like "does this crossing have a traffic light?"